| Yesterday's News | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Whiskeytown |
| Album: | Strangers Almanac |
| A-Side: | "Yesterday's News" (Radio Version) |
| B-Side: | "Yesterday's News" (LP Version) |
| Released: | February 1998 |
| Recorded: | 1997 |
| Genre: | Alternative country |
| Label: | Outpost Recordings |
| Producer: | Jim Scott |
| Chronology: | Whiskeytown |
| Prev Title: | '"16 Days"' |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | 'Car Songs' |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
"Yesterday's News" is a song by alternative country band Whiskeytown, co-written by Ryan Adams and Phil Wandscher. It first appeared on Whiskeytown's Strangers Almanac album, and was released in 1998 as a CD single.[1]
An earlier version of the song - recorded during the band's "Baseball Park" sessions - was released on the 1998 reissue of the band's first album Faithless Street.[2] Ryan Adams calls this "the definitive version. It sounds younger and freer than the one on Strangers Almanac, a little bit faster and louder. That was our Big Star phase. I played through a Vox amp at [producer] Chris Stamey’s request. Phil put a space-echo on the solo, and he talks underneath me in the choruses. The singing is better on the original... I had just written the song when we recorded it with Chris [Stamey] for the Baseball Park Sessions. The person it was about was still fresh in my mind."[3]
The lyrics of the song mention "The Comet", i.e., The Comet Lounge, a favorite Raleigh, NC, hangout for the band. The bar has since closed.[4]